Mick Crews

Mick Crews has a stellar history as a business leader and charitable project leader in England, Europe and the Far East. After two years with the Ford Motor Company in the organization department he joined the manufacturing division of Procter and Gamble. Between 1959 and 1974 he was a line manager, industrial engineer, project manager and management developer. He joined Ellerman Shipping Lines in 1977. In 1980 he was appointed to the Board of the Shipping Division. From losses of several millions in 1978/1979 the division was returned to profitability in 1982. The main spring of the turnaround was the development of a distinctive, productive and highly motivational company culture. Ellerman was sold to Trafalgar House in 1987 where he led the integration of Cunard Cargo with Ellerman Operations. He was then appointed Chairman of a major company in South Africa.

Mick resigned in 1990 to become Chief Executive of the UK branch of The Hunger Project. He undertook a major two year project in Bangladesh training catalysts to work in villages to help villagers create their own solutions to end hunger in their locality. He is a past Chairman of the UK Association of Management Education and Development. In 1991 he created a consulting company Impart Ltd. In 1991 he was a member of an EU mission in the port of St. Petersburg.

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The truth looks different when viewed from different points of view. One wise man observed, "The main difficulty with a point of view is that we are standing on it!" We all know that, and lie to ourselves about who we really are.